Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

5 reviews

linguaphile412's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Death, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Murder, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Grief, Eating disorder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Whew, this book is so so hard, and probably because it's so well-written. I think it's as close to poetry as prose comes. So much research, so much hurt, so much trauma. Incredible. Would read anything Marzano-Lesnevich wrote.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Car accident, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Rape, Addiction, Incest, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Fatphobia, Vomit, Self harm, and Bullying

If child abuse is not good for you to read about, this is definitely a book to skip. The descriptions are extremely hard.

layton93's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Child death, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

samchase112's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Damn. The Fact of a Body is an extremely powerful book about deeply disturbing and difficult topics. Marzano-Lesnevich's writing is so compelling and they weave the story together so incredibly well; each scene, each word, was so carefully chosen. I won't lie, this is not an easy book to read -- there is something horrible happening on seemingly every page. All I can say is that I loved and hated every second in almost equal measure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Incest, Grief, Eating disorder, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

thebookadvocate's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug use